Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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And Uon?? diction?Why He PhMUhed 111* Book at the North. Only a week until Christinas?the day of hallowed memories- the dry o! peace on curth and good will to men, and especially to women and children. The day of fire-crackers and fuss foi boys, and dolls and duiuty things fot the girls. Tho day when everybody ought to smother their trouble's and try to make all around them happy. Selfishness is a sin at all times, especially on Christmas, and so ictus all open our hearts, and if we havt nothing else to give to others, Ictus jtvo our smiles and benedictions. Wc are all poor now?poor in purse. bu1 love and good will cost nothing, ami there aro many ways of showing it besides uiakiug presents that wo eair not allord to buy. I sec my folks work Ing over their scraps of silk and loc< and stuf&lng home-madedolls- making cravats and hemstitching lmndker chiefs, and doing some other things 01 the sly just for littlo tokens and 9ur prises, but we will have no Christmas tree this tiiue. When 1 was in luj teens wo had a debating society, am one of the favorite questions was. "is there bueh a thing as disinterested benevolence ?" I was for the atllrma live t lieu and Iain for it yet. Witl many people I know that 'it. is uiort blessed to give than to receive, and ii is a comfort to tne to believe that I an oue of them. Sometimes I wish thai I was rich just to havo tho pleasure and the fun of helping tho unfortu nato. I would like to go about in dir. guise as King ltunort did and look ii upon tho huts and haunts of povertj by night, and soo their wants am miseries, and send round my cluiritj wagons next morning, and makinj, them happy for a few days, if no inoro 1 would like to follow tho wagons alonj and linger at the doors and seo tin eager-wondering faces of tho childrci as the good things wi re handed out 1 would havo something good to ea and good shoes and stockings am blunkots and quilts and soup am towels and a few simple medicines am some second-hand hooks with picture in them. 1 would raise the family uj for a week or so any how and leav< my card, " From a friend who wishe you well and begs you to look up am not down. Ho a true man and atrm woman and raise your children to h good and happy. Don't despair." Yes, 1 have at times had just suel Utopian dreams as that, hut I wil never bu rich nml ii i- ?>iiri.? know?best for me untl best for tin children. Old Amur's prayer wuk pu in the good book for u good purpos* Solomon was trusted with riches bu he came to grief. We have scores o millionurics in our day, but the Pole Coopora and Peabodys are few and fa iHitween. Most of them hold on witl u selfish grip until they die. and ovei then they let go unwilling by ami wouh take their treasures with them if the; could. I knew a rich man who wouh never make a straight out deed to i piece of land when he sold it, bu would only convoy it by a lease to las ''as long as trees grow and rivers ran. He actually claimed a reversions!1; interest in every aero that he sold and seemed to imagine thut ho wouh get it all back someday, if the tiiu* ever comes when there shall be a nev heaven and a now earth, I'm afraid h can't locate his boundaries. We have got the grip at our house The worst thing uboutthis new tangle* disease is its depressing inlluenoo upoi our emotions. I don't feel like doinj anything, or saying unything or writ ing anything. I feel blue and hav* lost my hilarity, and so wo have con eluded to go to Flordia for a season We will divide tile family. Four o us will go to Cleurwnter Harbor, 01 the gulf cost, and bathe in the sal water and breathe the salt air, ami w* wil' fish and eat oysters and orange until wegetwell. Hoard is very ehca] there and I will radiate around to tin little town and mix with the yankee and sell my talk for more than it i worth at home. 1 have long wishci that they know us as well as wo dii them and 1 want it fair chance to tol them some things that they do no know. I am now calm and serene am won't quarrel with anybody nor bur their feelings, but its a relief to a niai to express his sentiments. 1 have re contly written a little book- a histor; of Georgia, and I was just obliged .< givo a history of the late war and win was to blame for it nothing to ?*x tenuato or set down aught in malice but 1 had a time of it with my publish era. Ginn & Co., are Hoston men They are Hunker Hill yankeesund lev* their fatherland with its glorious me muries, which is all right, of course Patriotism is to ho admired every niiviu, j. iiuj uugugeu me 10 write i school history 01 Georgia, and whoi they perused my manuscript and go to that part about the causes of tin war, they were surprised and shocket and wrote to mo to know wlicro I go all that. I had writteu that Knglanc never freed hor slaves until 18 Id -onlj seventeen years before the late war and I had to prove it before they woulc go on with the book. I had writtei thut Massachusetts carried on the slav< trade for years after their own slavewore freed, and I had to prove that They had never heard that Genera Grant wasn slaveowner up to Lineoln'i proclamation. They denied main tilings and required proof; for, o course, they felt responsible for tin book. They even felt a kind of rev once for old John Brown, for they an young men who have grown up sinct iho war and had never read but on* side, and that was their side. But 1 had my way and my say, and establish ed what 1 asserted and I found them t< be reasonable uud courteous gentle men in all of our correspondence. 1 had the advantage in age and memory, A good friend said that I should have got a Georgia publisher. Of course I would have preferred that, but nc Georgia publisher would have nuid me as well for my work. No Georgia publisher would have given away I,(IOC copies to editors and school hoards. No Georgia house would have done such good work for the retail price ol tU) cents. Boston can beat us in lx>okinfil/inrr ^ -? 1 ....... uiiu iAivin-[)Urtillllg, iinu 1)111' publishing houses had bettor take lesson* from thorn. 1 have tried both. This reminds me of old Squire Mo* (iinnis, of our county, who, wuy before the war, ruled "Greenleaf on Evidence" out of his court because it was published in Boston. But tiio war iH over and the old squire is dead. Let us eat tboir codfish und ship them our oruftgea in peace, and when they visit us, let us give them welcome and put in our missionary work with alacrity and good will. BILL ARP. ? A now short lino between New York, Washington, Jacksonville and Tampa. Fla., by the Klohrtnmd and Danville railway, will be opened for * business December iMth, and veatibul?.d limited trains will bo operated bo* i t w?eu those points from and after that 4*t* . ? r --f; k&L .. _ I :;,' 7i7i??* When it IS Uolter to S?vo >|onejr Than to ^peiiil It. The things we do at Christmas aro touched with u eertuiu grain of extruv* ? ajranae, ns beautiful in some of it-> asI pects as the extravagance of nature iu June. It is the children's carnival, the midsummer of charity to the poor, the spring-tide of good-will to men ; the titno of the year when heaven opens, , and angels come down tosing to sailors . on the ocean, to old-country folks in | I the long-reaches of new colonies, to i people in hospitals, poor-houses, in I mansions, and "the huts where poor j | men lie the time when the atmosI oh ere is lust rieht for oloiir-hiniiinfr lil'ce, and it would l>o something of a ' sliumo for tin wind to send the smoko , down any chiinnoy as it docs a week j before or after; when there is a goodly , sinoll abroad, as if the fratikims r.se the wise men brought on a day long ago, to temper the taint of a stable. ' had got into this whole world of ours. \ as a t railing eloud of the odors of spiced [ bread : when the poorest platters and ( mugs tuke a touch of tine recklessness by reason of the thoughtfulncss of ( tliose who have bread enough and to ; spare ; when the Christinas tree grows I all radiant and fruitful, as no other | tree which blooms through the year: j i for it bears at least twelve manners of ! j fruit, ami the leaves of the tree are fur the healing of the nations. 1 would not therefore insult Christinas by underdoing If . The man who ( then does most for his fellow men. uo^ cording to tils means, does best. Wo can , give the tramp who comes to our hack \ door, a royal cup of coll'eo Christmas J _ | morning, with a good grace, though i ) we have to see that ho does not i un . ( away with the spoon. They are wide I j nages t he angel opens in t he hook of life at Christmas : and when wo do our r best, we cannot do it quicker than he ' cun write it down. 'r Still I think it is not hard to see how we may spare, oven at Christmas-tide, j and yet do more and better than if wo spend. If a man spends the money he < 1 Oil (flit to save to line his ilcl.ts wlion n.> 1 j knows very well ho gnn only pnv his , I ucbts by saving, ho may give wlial ho , | buys, right and left with an open hand, ! and it wil bo to bis own shame. I have I never digested one of the best suppers i I I over sat down to in my life, though | it is yeurs since 1 ate it. because, as it I eatne out after, my host owed for it at the store, and the debt was never j paid. 1 don't want any more of those j suppers. There are miilions of dol- : lars spent every Christmas, of other \ men's money. Not a penny ought to he , laid out in gifts one can well let alone. Men who do that get drunk on their t own generosity, though they never taste of wino ; and. if they are men of . conscience, the headache and hcurt, ache of getting sober will he none tho | less for their motive in getting drunk. We should never spend when we ought to spare, especially if we have > families. One of tins saddest things 1 J , have struck in mv life lias been the' sight of families left destitute, t hrough l a certain easy-going generosity in the ' man out of whoso life they sprang, who i 1 would have everything of the best j . trusting to his luck to come out all j i, right: who would spare nothing at j Christmas-time, or any other time,' ' so that ho might have things hand- | ! tome, while lie had not laid up a dollar I , for a rainy day or for that instant peril of death which dogs till our footsteps between the cradle and the grave. Saving is so slow to such men and so hard ! 1 should not take much stock in that man who would not close instantly with the proposal of a decent com, pctonco for his wife and children, in \ exchange for tho open gates of heaven, and the angels waiting w it h a crown, ' if he had the chance. "Wo brought nothing into this i world, and it is certain we call carry nothing out." thosudold Hebrew cries, i I answer, "Surely, surely, if you mean | mere things hut somewhere with ' I mo when I go away, 1 carry tho account ~ ' of what 1 have done to fend for those J ^ leave behind me. and save them from L the bitter pangs of poverty, by my i forethought, self denial, and clear i grit, froai tho day when I took a maid , from her mother, and said, "Trust mo . to take care of you. whatever comes, to , be a house-bond toyou and the children , God mavirivc us r" v,.< .>v..n !?> ?.ioi.!...? .v ti-H , back Christmas, if wo have It) do it, and letting the bairns rise to ttud empty 1 stockings these hard times. Hotter em* pty stockiny"s to-day than tlio bitter bare k winter of poverty, if I should bo taken 1 I from them. I can easily imayi.no how ' a man would be glad to exchange his ] golden harp and crown, if ho could, for ' i good six nor cent stock if ho could " J lind himself in heaven?supposing a ' man could go there, when, though his own carelessness, ho has loft a wife and family of littloones without, a pon' ! ny in the world. * | * rtOUKKT COKEYER. ' i Stkait Makes a Kick.?Mr. Strait 4 I of South Carolina, has offered a resoluj tion requiring the Secretary of the ^ Navy to communicate to the House the j authority under which ho appointed , Benjamin L. Brook way, of Living1 stone, Ala., a cadet in the Naval Aca! demy for the I* i f t h Congressional District of South Curolina. Mr. Strait in speaking of tiie resolution said that early last, spring a vacancy occurred in the Academy from his district. lio j wrote tho Secretary of tlio Navy reyard ingit, but received no reply. When ^ Congress met in August, ho called u> j the navy department on the matter, but found the Secretary away. Ho wrote again in September, but received no answer to his communication. A few days ago lie received a reply to another communication in which the . Secretary said ho had tilled tlio place to which Mr. Strait had reference. " Upon receiving this reply and learning that a person from Alabama had been appointed to the place, ho wroto to Secretary Herbert-charging that lie ' had overstepped his authority by ap-, ! pointing a person eutsido of the State 1 to a place belonging to tlio Fifth South ! J Carolina District. Mr. Strait will ! bring the matter to the attention of ! the House as soon as an opportunity is J afforded. ?? 9m ? ; The State's Military. Adjutant 1 General Farley has made his annual 1 ' leport to the war department at ' Washington. It shows that the aggro- 1 1 gate military force of the State is 5.- 1 St*> men. against .">,1120 last year. The ' force is divided as billows: Cavalry, 1 ' l,5(i(t; infantry. 3,1178: light batteries 1 of artillery, .">31. Tlio staff of general ' 1 officers is composed of 27 men. An in- I 1 i htwuii^ ittui m connection with the ; report in that t here urc more cavulry- ( men in this Stuto than in any other ' Htoto in tlio Union. Hampton Counly ' alone hns more volunteer cavalry than 1 any Btato in the Union. There ore 1 Hoven cavalry companion in that county. 1 South Carolina. u? ih known, ranks ljftli v. in the United Htutoa in the number of ^ volunteer soldier*. 1 ?The damage tmlt-brought by Mrs* t K. S. Handy 11 against J, G. Handle, s for killing her husband lust Christ- ] mas. at Dallas Texas, ho* beep cpm- t jw-omiaed ior *1U,000 I r i KxonQi'AUHl Mill*ill l?nn H.V, l\ ot* llr bory?/\ Shotch ??f tL v <. Who))clVal(Hl Flltliutfl) (km?. *i;,' The Senatorial investigating coil* T* niittue in the Virginia Eegislutmy reported in substaneb that no unusual methods wore used to elect members of tin? Legislature last fall, und that no frundulent or improper means wore used to nominate euuuidutes for United States Senator before the Democratic caucus. "The report which, was signed by tho whole committee, was unanimously adopted. Mr. Thomas S. Martin, tho nomiuce of the caucus, was duly olooted to serve the long term and Gen. Eppa liuutou wus elected for tho short term. Mr. Thomas S. Martin, who defeat'd the brilliant und phenomenally popular Fitz Loo for tho United Stutes Sonutorship, is one ol the plainest and uiwt>t unassuming men in vir;:.um politics. A yeur ugo the leaders would huvo laughed at the idOu of Murtiu's beating Fitzhugh Lee for this important position. The fact is. though, the latter relied for uucuccs upon itis illustrious name and great popularity. Martin, on the other hand, begun tho work of building up an organization to accoiuplibh his object, v ith the result of presenting the most perfect organization ever know n in the South. To tho fact that Martin overthrow' the idol of Virglniuus is duo tho investigation which was set on foot Friday by the Legislature. Mud Leo been nominated, or had Martin defeated | another opponent, there would not have boon a voice raised against tho methods which it is alleged Were resorted to in securing the Albemurlo man's nomination. Mr. Martin was born in Seottsville, in Albemarle County, Vu. lie is uj graduate of tho University of Virginia, ' at which institution ho studied law | and obtained bis degree. Sineo then i he has pursued tho practice of law, and is ut present the counsel for the Chesapeake and Ohio Kuilroad. Mr Martin is 40 years old and in personal appearance is a line looking man. lie is about medium height and weighs probably 1 ?<? pounds. Tho Senatorelect is a bachelor and is one of the most modest of men. In the presence j of ladies ho is said to bo nearly us i dillidolit as a school boy. In bis deal- 1 ings, with men, however, lie lias shown himself to boa far-sighted, practical man of afTuirs, and as a political! there are few in the State who are shrewder than Mr. Martin, lie is worth about $100,000! made mostly from his law practice. He has never yet held any pul lie oilloo. During tho negotiations of settling! tho State debt, two years ago. Mr. Martin represented tho State before the Olcott committee, and made no I w..r ?. : - 1 - ? ? ? uiiui ^t- ini" ms services. tie lias neon on tin' Democratic executive commit tee for the past ten years, having been a member of that body during tiie. memorable campaign of 1.S82, in which the overthrow of Mahono was ueeomplisbed. When Senator John W. Daniel ran against Uiddloborfjer for a seat in Die United States Senate Mr. Martin was tho former's chief manager. Upon tho death of Senator JohnS. Harbour in tho summer of 1S!I2 Martin became a candidate for the Senatorship. and has worked with nntirinjr effort to accomplish the victory lie bus gained. Perhaps no political aspirant in Virginiaovor had a better organization, or was surrounded with shrewder leaders than those who aided t he Setiatoi-elect in his campaign. In this connection a little incident which oeeurod iit tho Senatorial campaign deserves mention. Mr. Martin several years ayo loaned a cattle deaicr in Scottsville a small sunt of money with which to aid him in making u shipment. During the Senatorial light Mr. Martin rccpivi iY ft letter from tiie ex-cattle dealer, 'who now resides in New York and is worth a million, stating that he would aid him in any way he could in his Senatorial ambitions. Of course Ml*. Martin lue. received hundreds of letters and telegrams of i vmgratulntion. Among these wasonV'Yrom a young lady whom be had met at liis brother's wedding. The modest bachelor at once ordered two dozen American boaftty roses and liad them expressed to her. ONi: IIITNDKIOI) IMOKCIiXT. All <'lasses of Properly Must tic Taxed at Pull Value. The State lux department is determined to nuxh the iruit.toi* /if incnt of all kinds of property and collection of taxes to tho fullest extent , the coining year. This is tho yeai for the assessment of real estate, and t he i Comptroller is starting early to have j the property of tho people of tho State placed upon the hooasat its full value. | The following circular bearing upon ; the subject has boon issued by the < Comptroller General, and speaks for . itself. It is directed to the various \ county auditors: i Dkaii Sir : Koturns for taxation j from tho IstJanuary. 18t)4, totho llOtho | Pobruary must embrace both real and i personal property. Auditors cannot he; too careful in taking those returns. ' Koturns of every species of taxable , property should be secured, and in j every enso whore the auditor or his as sistant has reasons to suspect or believe , . that there is any desire or purpose on the part of tho taxpayer or his agent1, to evade a full return of all property. , he should by proper questions and in- i vestigations bring out all the facts and j secure a full, complete and just return ; of all taxable property as required by | law to be made. ' j , Great ear? should bo exercised in tho ] j selection and appointment of the town- , j ship board of assessors. None but. j t clear, fair, impartial men of good sound t business judgment and information i should he appointed members of these boards. If theso boards will oxerciso c discretion and take pains in getting j ut and placing on returns every speeies } uftaxahlo property, and justly equalize, -j lis between individual taxpayers in n their respective townships or tax (lis- ? tricts; and tl>o county boards of oquulination, composed of tho chairmen of j the tqwnship hoards, will oxerciso tho mine discretion, caro and judgment as between townships, and in all cases of tppcnl, the crying evil of gross inequ- ( ilitics of assessments will disappear c md no longer he heard. Gross inequ- v ilities of assessments do now exist, and | tho remedy is largely in the hands of | ludftors in the dischnrgo of their i luties and in these boards appointed , ?y the auditors to value and equalize , issessmonts, a Tnero in no law for assi-sHlntf and p >quali/ing taxable property upon a j ?asis of ()d 2-3 per cent.., or anv other h xisis than its " true value in mdney." p >ur laws require ull taxable property J eal, personal and possessory, to bo p )laced upon the tax nooks at tlio " t rue uiluo in money." Land a worth 81. 00, 6.00, $10,00, $20.00, or more, should be issesscd at that value, no more and no u ess. Bank stock worth *20.(id almve B he par value of $100 should he as- ti essed at $120 per share, and others in ti n'Oportion. Bank st<>ek >vorlh less 1> bun par yaluo should be assessed at M val^e, upd po mppp. .(Jpruoratiojjs j\ / q f? Knee IiilVliefilc* -?t the Soutli. ("lV'H iffeii" thj^Forum.) \ ? \.11, -/oj5k wi<:h' > i Sinn nt OyW taxaKn-' ' v . i * ornorat^n'm a* itmSV liSAo'in . II,i teri:.* -'"T- < ; r , J ductlvo powers .vt tiuuij i , : ' ,>? . ; v real, personal or'possessor v. is an :in IHirtunt factor iu fixing the "true money \alues" for taxation. Lands producing one bale ol cotton or -tw uty-fivo bushels of coru and out* p r aero aro worth moro than tbeso producing one-half these amount:1. So with other classes of taxable prope ty. Values aro influenced by incomes de rived from such property. The gt ,;l1* er percentage ot the burden of taxation rests now too liouvily upon ' .10 Icps productive propel tics of the b* . and should bo remedied. 1-Vrsonul friendships, neighborly ?ntorcourse and primary election should not inlluence auditors nor boards in these uiatters of assessmentbut they rdiould be uetuuted 1 >y tin- it road principle of absolute ju t ce to all taxpayers and the full, true value in tniun-y placed upon each and ?very tuxutie interest, class and eltaructcr of property iu l!?o State. tf tlio boards of assessors do their work in a haphazard way. and boards of equalization do not correct th-'^e gross in* qualities, we shall in-i t upon auditors proceeding in each rase, as is required by Section 211U. etc., General Statutes, hs construed by the Legislature in 1892, ?tt< r the construetion by tbo courts of this and other germane sections. Your especial attention is t ailed to the fact tbut millions of dollars in credits, such as bonds, mortgages, notes, accounts, cash, etc., etc., now escape partially or wholly from their just share of taxation. Let us have every dollar of taxable property in the State at its true vu' , in money upon the tux books, um\M'be levy us now inudo can be roduebtl by something like one-half. Kespoctfully, VV.- II. KU.kkmk, <'omptrollor General. ?? A NA TION OF DKLNIiI!US Mow >1 ucli t he \ ini'i'ii ...(- Spent Yoiip for Whiskey and Tobncrit, Sj rcfal to the \limit i < (institution. Washington, I). ('., December IT. Although we arc counted a fairly sober peoplo in the hurly-burly of nations, tho figures of tho internal revenue commission for the last fiscal year on tho amount of whiskey and boor we, drink iiiyl tho number of cigars and cigarettes we make, and tho quantity of tobacco wo chew are simply amazing: They make tho head reel. Tho preacher who peruse) them will hie to the pulpit to tell his congregation that j we a ni^yMMMrunWards, stupefied ! ri the half: e a c h e s upon 11 t i u^^^^^^Anrnry t<^^^^^^^^^Hfcnimcut operation id^^^^^^^^^^H'e|>resented lie a t<f re h this I.an armful \Y(V according to inner i I'li'^^^^^^^pater <if the r I m in. (it it) \ work ii,iitl(l.(it)ti,r v of whiskey fori whicli 1 ,S^^^r tiio bar tne eiior- J moils sum HOO.OOO. or Jot), Of Ml. 0(10 | more than the animal appropriations of Congress eomhined. This repro-I sents a consumption of 100 glasses of whiskey each year for ?"%ery man, wo- j man and child between tbo rock bound 1'acific and tho storm tossed Atlantic, or counting only male adults, .TOO glasses for each. Of heer the figures are equally astounding. Tho consumption was j .'M.'.K'.-MU.'i barrels, that is 12,786,109,200 I glasses, representing an expenditure j for this mode of Teutonic hilarity of j $017,258, Hit), or about $10 for each in-i habitant. In tbo neighborhood of 200 I glasses are charged up in thisbarcula- | tion against each of us as our annual j allowance. If wo do not average our daily glasses with our daily bread we | may bo siiro our neighbors got the ' benefit of our abstinence. hi tin matter of cigars, cigarettes, smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco wo arc equally prodigal. The blue incense of 4,811,1102,000 cigars and cheroots. and the curling worathsof 3,17(1,1108,000 cigarettes aid us in our reveries and sootiie us in our work. For this luxury we pay : for cigars and cheroots, *253,7.'?0,<K)0: for cigarettes, ?22,832,000. This is apportioned for sigars, 83 to each inhabitant or U.i for ouch male adult; cigarettes, 51 | to each man. woman and child, or 250 to each .mule adult. All this goes up in smoke each year, while people are ilingering for bread. Hut this does lot include the millions of bowls of tobacco that are consumed in pipes. I'ho figures for smoking tobacco eunlot be separated from those for chewing tobacco. Conbinod we consume I7b,720.033 pounds of the fascinating weed which cost us $130,003,03(1. Altogether, not taking stock of the rionoy wo expend for champagne A'hoso sparkling bubbles burst about he brimming goblet, and the other . md imported native wines which drivo iway earking euro, the people of the | Jjiited States spend annually for drink j md tobacco the almost inoomprehonsi- i lie sum of $1,0-11,5X13.4(10. The mind is ! ncnpablo of grasping the largeness of ] ,his total, but when it is remembered hut this is more than the oil v. dating nedium of the United States: that it is <27 per head more than the per capita ircuiution, that it proves that the icad of ovory family, supposing lie landles tlio purse strings, pays out *it)5 annually for drink and tobacco md that every dollar in the United, hales goes each year over the b:ip oj: i counter of some tohai.t.onisv. some dea of its magnitudo can bo obtained. -ITon. Victor C. Harrlnger, of North Carolina, judge of tlio international ourt of appeals, at Alexandria, Egypt, vrites his brother, General lliifus tarringer, that iris term with tho Egyptian government will end early n tlio eotning year, and that he wiil otun to America next stpnrnor ?1, imposes to make v t,-|.* np \b<i .Nile ail ov'iei cxcii. sioiis in the'nasi alter iO is relieved of his ollleial duties, and heso coneluded ho will set his face oinownrd. Judge Ihirri nger has been n Egypt many years and has fully nstaine.d himself in tho h/gh position o has oocupicd. - Tho Scnnto hi+n cunnnwed ilio 1 ominntim tff \Vayno MoVeigh, of r 'oiinsylvania, to ho ambassador ox- i aordinary and imnisti r plonipoten- n ai'y to Italy. Ho is highly rnspoctod ( V moil of all part it s. and his work for I(.'trv dund is acknowledged ]K.vo s . suited in ^roa^ood * 4 |> ir TV* the st4t:r, .A RtT > eh.ip wifnyoiU^v hair? lii? three ?vv,t . Bo ; iill wort thej One would have thought them not al pluy. Ouito so. Three sages more sedate Could ne'er be found in halls of state. Their subject was so weighty a oni That o'en the red, half-setting sun Looked sadly dowu, uud knit his browj Beneath the storm of "whens" and "hows." "Well, I'm for Cleveland, llow are you V" The other am v. red " CloVcland too"1 " All for Cleveland ? That ain't fair? Ono to...... v.e,? ? . - i'? .V J vv V'?A i VUVIU . Gift need ho then at member three.? Baby, lull of childish gloo ; Ana looking up into his fuco Where thb wee smiles grow apace And the dimples eamo and v.-cut. A i<? <J. "Who do you want for President V" Baby razed in culm surprise Upward to the summer skies *, Then, without a. moment's pause Lisped out sweetly "Thanta ClaUs." SWAN MUSI' <;o TO JAIL. The Dispensary Suffers A not Iter Doteat in the I'niieil States Supreme t'ourt?.liKlye Sitnonioti's Derision is A Hi .lied and (lie Motion ibi Halloas Corpus is Denied. Washington. Boc. is. Tho Soutt Carolina dispensary liquor law was the subject of a decision in tho United States Supreme Court to-dav, delivered by Chief Justice Fuller. The facts ir tho case, briefly, were these : Before the law went into effect, a barrel ol whiskey hud been sent inpi the State of South Carolina by a citizen ol North Carolina, over the South Carolina rail j way. a concern operated by a recolvoi appointed by tho United States Court, ' Because of insufficient address, the railroad offends could not deliver the barrel to tho consignee, and it wasstored in the railroad station, pending Investigation by tho offcinls tn determine the identity of the eonsighoe. While thus stored, the barrel was seized by C. B. Swan, a State constable, appointed to enforco tho law. He showed no warrant for tho seizure ol the liquor, other than his badge ol offee. and stated that he acted without instructions from any judicial officer. The receiver of the railroad had v (uisuimo owuii Drought before the United States Circuit Court to show cause why lie should not be puuishci) for contempt of court in seizing the liquor. Upon the hearing of the ease, Swan was adjudged to he in contempt, and was committed to the custody ol the United States marshal. The Attorney Cienoral of the State then brought the ease to the, United State* Supremo Court on a motion for Swan'* release upon a writ of habeas corpus, contending that tho, Circuit Court had no jurisdiction in tho matter to entei any order respecting tho action of the contftublo. After reviewing the easo at great length, Chief Justice Fuller stated the opinion of this court to he that tin Circuit Court did have jurisdiction ol the matter : and. further, that bOeiiusi the seizure of the liquor as made l>> Swan was not expressly authorized by the! statute under which lie claimed tc art. lie was not justified in making it, The motion for a writ of habeas corpus, therefore, was denied. In the course! of his opinion, Chiel .1 ust ico Fuller said : "It uiu^t he remembered that this property was in the custody, of the reclever, t ho ollloer of the court: that it had been brought into the State before the act wemtf. nto operation : that it had not been delivered because ol imperfect address; that there was ne: concealment and no* occasion for haste ; and that there was no ditlioulty in tho way of application to the court to have the goods detained or for permision to withdraw them from the receiver's possession. Nothing can be clearer than that the court had jurisdiction to determine whether the goods were retained in violation of the laws of State ; whether tho receiver, in conducting the business of the railroad in respect of the transportation of this barrel, was proceeding 'according to the valid laws of tho State,' as provided by the second section of the act of Congress of March 1SS7 : and whether the seizure was authorized by any law of the State. "Tho possession of property by tho judicial department, whether Federal or State, cannot ho arbitrarily encroached upon without violating the fundamental principle, which requires co-ordinate departments to refrain from uin'riviriifC Willi UlO independence of ouch other (in re. Tyler. IU? U.S., Ml); ami the position that u petty officer can take property from thy possession of a court, without permission ami without warrant. '* upon his own motion f.ncl without instructions from ap.V other person," as petition* r admits ho did, boonuso in ins view the duty is imposed upon him by a particular statute, and that tho court is without power to pass upon the quostions involved, or, if it does so, that its judgment may ho treated with eot\t.mptuous defiance, is utterly injulmUsiolo in any community {issuniing to bo governed bv law," Tbo Columbia Uogistcv ways that tho newspaper reporter-- (locked to the U\'eutivo Mansion to interview Governor Tillman on the decision of the United Stales Supreme Court in the Swan ease, lie was not in the least excited, but said, in answer to a multitude of inquiries : " Prejudice don't oven stop at Wash-, ington. Before I say anything I want to see what possible excuse they can hitvo for such a styotelt of judicial au-1 thorily." '^ho'Qovernor was then asked for an expression on tho simple fact that the 1 decision was against tho State, lie tins wo red. and there was something of 11 prediction in what lit) had to say : " Well, 1 can say that it only intensities the demand that must arise for the surtailmont of tho powers of tho Pod rul Court, or wo will have no \(Wvtv it all. It further shows vUai the Poit>ral Supreme Qaqi'V is wot above mytUun VU v-i'sious when aimed tit the i^e'fdym movement If wo cannot trrest contraband liquor in the hands if 11 IVrtftl." ? . ? . ,.v.n>??vi ?*j \:uuiiut< arrest ft nnirleror on a train run by a receiver, for ho St ?to law is paralyzed by ovory such lecisiou as this. Bwau hud disobeyed 10 order of tho court. Ho was slhudy juilty of ft trespass. I my nossago had k., ao with it thnn ho i?j*7 4 yyiu stand it, however.'' A11Vh \Va^ all tho Governor would say, ut it was briof and breezy, thoroughly hftrneteristie of tho tnan who is Unfiling what In* holiQVOs is *'ieMngeftcnt of States' V> the t:\iboi:..I anirts 'i u?s dyoj-jioo of the courts will p.it wan in jail to servo the soiiU'heo assed u^jou Ujup bydud^v> StioOutou. .' MA fin up W4 >,m :"N .; itH; 11 ix. j Ah I Jim I tV. ^ iuI if) i.ei* t; ' i4 Cilvv Tln'iH ,\v !? !* ;>;/1 ' o"*I?t | j . < *Ol?1 I'll. ?. * ' . 'A .i! t'lui ; relating ' tit i" thRcrU't! WICIKMIH UOUtl'HOtS, 111 Si u iiioh tii-.T. 'v:ijan unfavorable i*eport. J? wus deft .hint by Its author. Senator 1 Mower, lie suid that the bill najiif, currying out the evolution of evil now'i 'p| i in progress as to such coutractsof that m character. Tie belioved that the un- vv restricted rights of ownership should ! carry with them .'reo l ights of contract- ! . i lu'^ fi Senator Suivtho, speaking foi the , committee, maintained that the law *' wua now ascertained, und that it w.-s? ' thought unwise to further tinker with , it- |?u \Z.... M 1 * ' - - ' kioiiavwr mnwur lU'JiUtJU I Villi I DO I ft 'A' ? whs not ascertained. and its object was v-1 , to pljftrify thu situation. j '/ Senator Tlninicrmun n r < ! \v?t \ tho Senator from Now her; y. Y :o pro- 7C visions of the law were so pluin that there could ho no question about it. hi Senator Buist had. .since 'S2. favored ( Cn and voted lor uch legislation, al- mi , though r.t that time but one Senator [ gi hud voted with him. Tho bill would j <>f ho for t!ic protection of honest erod- ! St I tors, and was in harmony wi'h the: tendency of civilization. ! n Senator Wilson said that we have h gt good law. let's hold on to it. This bill ,ls will undo ail that has been done for p, the protection of married women since ,,ti 1882. af " 1 think," remarked Senator liigham, "that the Senator from Nowberry is right. The bill is plain, and ' 1 we have intelligence enough to vote t ' upon it without the advice of lawyers, ; who are very nice gentlemen, but i often expensive." He could not under- j \ stand why the Senator from Spartan- !' ; burg should be so interested to tal.r [4* , euro of the women, while the trull*, is that women are now taking euro of the a ' moil, at whie.li the Senate laughc J B softly, in its becoming way. ? S Senator Finloy stood up for the J aw p ' as it now exists, and in his personal ex- 111 ' porlenee lie knew that it. had been produetivoof good for the people. S Senator Sniytlie observed t.li? t the Florence Senator, like most oth'jr peo- fc pie, thought tliat, though lawyers d? | ootue high, they were very go ,h\ things m 1 when they were oil his side. Senator II ' Smythe depicted lie; misfortunes that hi come irom signing security notes, and \v declared that thy preseut law was a is safeguard to wpuicn, beouso they hud ti no accurate notions of business. Senator Mower believed that the ; business capacity of married women was underestimated. (jj Senator Verdler declared that the u, existing Jaw plaeed women on the u, same footing with lunatics. It was. t0 as ho regarded it. u premium on fraud. Married women should at least be loft sj with the same power as single women. The unfavorable report was adopted 1 by a vote of 21 to 8. OlTK MOW DISTINCT .ItliXilO. >'< Ol I Special to the News and Courier. ei 1 Washington. December 20.- u >' presentativo Brawley has been noini- |H nated to the District Judgeship made ' vacant by. tho promotion of Judge m Simonton. His appointment was sent Hf1 to tho Senate this afternoon, together 111 with several other Presidential nomi- c' ' nations. It is probable that he will (:? 1 not bo eonlirmed until after the holi1 day recess, although Senator Butler dl will make an effort to-morrow to have 1 ; ! tho judiciary committee take immediate action. The judiciary committee is a very conservative body, and ' if does not act hastily in dealing with judicial nominations. It has its * ' regular order of procedure, and as r there will he no regular meeting of the committee until after the recess, Major Brawley may have to wait a few 1 weeks before ho is entitled to be addressed as ' Judge." It is understood 111 the -President tendered him the ap- Ul pointment, at tho same time that.ludge !'!' ; Simonton's promotion was agreed upon. Mr. Brawley was given a few days to sl1 1 consider the matter, and at, first ho "J1 was disposed to decline the honor, j 1 lie consulted his friends at home and '! in Congress, and they wore almost ' 1 unanimous in urging him to accept it. 1 liis career in Congress has been parti- 1" cularly brilliant and his retirement 1 from the House will ho generally re- ,l<> gretted by his associates, who have i J11 learned to regard him as one of tho I " ablest and the most distinguished lie- v< prescntatives from tho South. He w\n ('<! shortly send his rosii*njit.ir?n oo ft r, em- I ?V hor of tho South Curoliua delegation | to Governor Tillman. VV _ . . m - V1 SHOT 11Y THK CHIKR J.'/ e.l Yohkvili.k. S. Cv Docoo^.bor. 10.? Ingraham \Yih?>u. chief r", police, today shot and. fatally Wounded .lames Gladden, a prominop'i, farmer of tlr.s su county. Tho dltt'.unlty occurred in [l> Roth's restaurant t Gladden, who was " perfectly sohfer, was eating a lunch, ^{' Wilson v'as under the inlluoneo c,f t'1 liuuor and was sitting by the sto* e. !" i'son remarked t hat Gladden was J11 eating like a hog. Gladden was in- l'' formed of the remark, and u <j unreel s!: led to blows. Wilson struck 0' Hidden 1,1 with his revolver and G'aP.dcn got Wilson down and heat hiur. until he " cried enough. a When Gladden got up, Wilson seized 1 ' his revolver, which had fallen on the lloor during tho st ruggla, and shot r Gladden just under tho 1) cart. Gladden .*s walked out of tho restaurant into the ,'<1 ollleo of l)rs. Rratton Ov llratton, who L P probed for it. without being successful, 1 it having struck, n rib and glanced. J ' Wilson was ant)tod by the shorifT an .1 P is now in jai', under tiie care of a dm- P1 tor. Gladden, though a man of power- " ful physique ami strength, will j nobably die. YOHKVIL.bE, December 20.--.Jame? J,',' I T. Gladden died this afternoon at |)( I al>out 4 o'clock from tho effects of th?* I f ? 11 ' ' I mnniu niiucu'a yosterdav afternoon by v! ' a pistol in tho bands of Town Marshall ;! .. | Wilson., Tho inqiu.st is now being-* "c, hold. Wilson, tho slayer, is a son of" 1 , ' Col. W. B. Wilson, and a broth or of ' '[ Sonator Wilson, of Spartanburg. The- ; ,' exoltcinont occasioned by tho occurrenco continues, and tlioro is talk in ' U|!< in the streets to-night of removing tlm t. ' pviwner to Columbia for safe keeping. Tiie Deepest Water ix the lust World.?In many respects the north sen Pacific ocean rosembios tho north tail Atlantic. A great warm current, con much like tho gulf stream and of equal tho magnitude,'called the Black stroam or the Japan current, runs northward along ^ the eastern shore of Asia. Close to the ban east coast of Japan it flows through a riso tuarino vallley whloh holds tho deepest 'bin wator in tho world. It was sounded at Von tho dopth of live and a quarter miles 1 by tho United States steamer Tusoarora Efln in 137o, while surveying for a protected Moo cable route betweon the United States fcavi and Japan. The heavy soundingweight took more than an hour to sink ? to the bottom. But trial was made of says a, chasm yet inoro profound, where i,he fight load dldnot feteh it up at all. "ft Is $10.(J tho only depth of ocean that yet re* Jack mains unfathomod. Yorl F HTf; SEWS K BKIW. , <t ?, Note* fv.nn Varlowr Sour Tin I'ni: <! SthtuH Senate ban con- . ||i| i mod the apj?oi iron4nt of Charles H. ^ 7 nionton a* I'nit <1 States Clruit V jyft. ?<);:<.' for * in r ..1.1 . . .. : Circuit. -\jjW A :i. >v .: .. ?, n ostab- ' I !i?-c \\ ' ( ' v ..mi unity. Iiru* j,i. now lit! -'our ili - [icnsaries jL tin - state: The a?:v .?w was bogua r. iiu buih.lir.: of Bendicfc Iniiuto.'Columbia. v.-at- destroyed by o pn tho night oh^cc. '20. The origin the livwa- inCb.di i^ry. Loss $4,(aX),' ' irtisl'v covered 'iiw.i aih?a .J jciS"! Jatn< h I", l/.lur will be tho ' !! H'lit'' of I ? 'II-'' ;?fives to hUC- V ) .<hinge ill iw! y mi C.iinjiOHH. Ho i!I b? opp-si u. by.*. W illiam Stokes, i AJlia: v culldklutc, who WUb dented by Bra-\v ley in the primary lust ar. The president hn>- nominated Gen* ^ >sep |i B. Kor*h.tw to be postmaster at y~/ imdtm. S. C. He could not huvo in!? ;> bottf.r eh Sice, nor one. that will ^ ve in t a* j ^ 11 to the patrons the ?' 11* to''be peoplo of tho uU',1 *v. -The Brink of tho CarolLnas At orotic9 . with Jiovyral branches in this ate Ha d Nnrtl) parol iiiu, baa made an sigmri cut lo Henry Uuist. of Charlesn. f a is is t he bank which suspenddoi* ,ng the panic lust summer and , t<.?r* urds resumed business. - T he position of Assistant Attorney* sue ral has been filled by the appointiot*tof Mr. Will A. Barber, of Gbos r, one of tho youngest members of Chester bar. Mr. Barber has acrpt^ d the appointment and w ill enter pon the discharge of his auti< is forthith. ^ ,(+? When Governor {Tillman was told \ boufi .the uppolntnu nt of Con; pressman il'awlcy lls the successor . (,if Judgp itno.oton. and was asked for an ox* ressi.'oti of opinion, hfltftard : "1 havo >t!ii ig against Brawlev. I can only iv i lat I hope lie wilt not r mulato. inion ton's example.'* ? A man named, Urewortoi'i. living >ur i niles north of Cjint on, was ingei oubly shot in the bai -k while ilkin ? bis cow, By John I Juekorby. nckci nby was purseed intc* Spartanirg ee'tinty and captured f ?horo. ITe as led pod In tho juil at J/i urons. ft * said t tint Huckerby bad b .*en too iumatoiiith Browbrton'fi w? fe. , - - Ann <. 'antini, an J talia n, lias sued the I baited States CAiurt f.or damagoft legod to have been iniiioted by the jdC spensary constables in their raid ion hti?. premisfs in Charleston on ie :tvcl <of Octobcvh. Il\. ;isris the court ? give him $10,000. and .It: dg o Simon-' n has. < irderod the arrest i if four eonuhles, iGaillard. Swan, I'e pper, and ^ e'J)onal d, who must give ha il in $6,000 %*, e.h, or go to jail ponding t, voir trial. ?Win. Carpenter, who wi Mi Frank HT-PttU \< iin.rl I ?.. . ........ i cpluii i ?i nro i our aiv ??ro in Edgefield, and w ho after liny no nt?-noetl t.o bo lian Jed 8UC>eded in making his escape, has been s-arn <ot? al and lodged in jail at. Edgejid. Si.neo Carpenter's cs tape ho is 1). on wandering around Georgia idor assumed names until si \ weeks :??. v. lion lie killed a negro 'lit Eastam < 5a.. and was arrostoc&i on tho targe of murder. ThlHlodto the disverv of bis identity, and the nation's of Edgefield were notif i<od. Relisiti on papers were potted out, and k irpei it?r was brought back last wqok a this .State. * ' "ill E MOW rot M Y I- ,'lbbEfi). rcciiwnud's Hopes are Vijnisl ie<l? Senator Heinpliill (iivmi ttn- (jirund ItniiifO t< tlie rroji'ct?In .ipiiicd on a I*o im ol < lull' i'. Whoa tiio Gveonwood < ounty bill is r-^ae.nod. Senator lie? .uphill cared t no point of order \j tat tho bill is u ot aeeompanie^. by petition, as quii ed by statute", f(,r t: ie incorporu- , >n o f bodies pp'dtie. Ho read tho 41 nt. es bearing on the question, and itod that uf )IK5 0f th?o preliminary "l)s httd b' ,t,n taken. There bad oni'ao udv ertiseim nt of the proposed \ an< fo in the counties, and thu people .l,? uliV olotj j,,ui bci.-n taken by surise.. " AqK.,.0 i,a,i been so.'uo petitions tho committees, but they did ' C5H fol-m to tho statutory requireents. qqu. ease of Berkeley county ol I* ion postponed last year on this ry f mint, tie did not propose. to prit etho peopleof Abbevil.1^ county. U' \ lis constituents, of any of their ivl' .egos. but lie represented the St.. majority of the peuph of Abbol .o. ILe had taken no advantage of j f riends who asked for the now ?uni .y. Ho had given them a fair mo :o. hut tho county must be /ormod cor ding to law. He aator May field replied to tho tlbn ville finlliil'"' imnlliii.T ^/VIIUVWM IVViVMI^ HIU JHi? <.vii lotly given the Legislature to rni new counties by changing tlio iinjo s of the old one. declaring that ic L ogislatuie could form now counos o f its own motion, without petiuns. Ho denied tout any "snap rjjjia lit" had boon taken tand said at ill e news of the movoi\.\?r,t which urti .? i iii October hud been fully rcula ted. Ben at or Finloy believed that tho enator s technical jioint now x-aine iit late d ay, after tho bill had passed [u> I loin o. Senuto r Moore staled that the, law end by tho Senator from Abbeville us front f a chapter headed " IntionotiVUJ <>1 Measures for Private Unrobes," witiolA/lisposed of fae fntf.nt. Senator' ilcm|/hill declared that tho SjLL ill had first <*??!* to t.ho Houwj with a tilion, and included that a urt of Laurens WL>? to C( "nprisod i the now county ',Uil <'1"1,1W'' i?av" I 'if out Laurens li. ** boen ,,u ad.^nce a io petitioners can fto. ,t u . re, and the people of ;V, " vllU' hftd ^ . "i ?t been put on not ice. , 1 ho re had. n(.),r en any formal advert. 80 uw ntof their tention. Senator Mayfleld nil l? tho Hon of tho House on the r \ , , , senator J. G. Lvans : Js this body und by the action of the i , senator Hemphill st.iteu 1 ,a- , totes ho had referred to; W? ?d l<? ' fonnaWon of bodies politic, lor which category a cou Qty wa* hi inly included. 'ho presidpnt of the Senat % Z?..mnv: p:)int l,U(l boen .i a. mxi . tie niul then taken ?^ei,, so of the 9on:ito upon it. and foi amo 1 reasons he would tske the a ^ rat) now. The roll was called, point of order was systr.lnet} by following vote: . s as Beaaley, Itricu.' Buist, IK ' ], Evan*, I'uliov. (jienn, lift T* > n, Hemphill," .lenkhn. Mtfjjlli. M*. iol, Miller, Ueayiii, Tiiumormun f clier and .Wilson?17. STavs?Abbott, Bifhaui, Brown, i, Evans, W. D.. Finloy, Mayfiold, re, Mower, O'Doll, I'euke, Kodo, S;ril?lin>r and Williams?14. -Charley MUr.tiull, 'the that shbbld ho win bis coiniiiff i with CorWbtt ho intend* teniae 100 of his winoihi-'s to llie poor of sonvill, St. Louna Boston! a mt New V\ J f W / - i